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The Pros and Cons of Using Social Media Bots

Whenever you want to share anything these days, you always head to social media first. Whether you have a personal account or a business account, you always decide that social media is where you'd want to post your news. It takes a while to follow people though, especially when you're trying to grow your account. It's not humanly possible for you to spend every waking moment searching up hashtags and account names that are similar to your interests so that you can follow them. That’s where the idea of getting a social media bot to do it for you comes in. It pretty much handles the task of growing your account with quality rather than just quantity.

Here Are Some Pros & Cons To Using A Social Media Bot:

Pro: Reach The Specific People You Want To Target

There's a very important factor that comes into play whenever you're using one of these bots, and that’s the fact that it doesn’t just randomly follow every single account in sight. It helps you find the people that could be interested in what you post. If you like playing the guitar, the bot will reach out to the people who also like viewing and playing the guitar. It works so simply as you just fill in the type of people you want to reach and the bot takes care of the rest by finding them on social media. It gets you high quality followers (accounts that aren’t new/spam/inactive) and if you've got a lot of followers, it can also handle the task of communicating with them about general information they might ask.

Pro: Works Better Than A Human Ever Could

A machine that calculates algorithms concisely will almost always perform better than a human being in terms of efficiency. The bots work so quickly and so tirelessly that they can reach out and get you hundreds of followers way faster than you could when you manually try to reach out to people and follow them in hopes for a follow back.

Con: They Might Not Have Everything You Need

When you're looking for a bot that can help you gain more popularity on social media, you might not be able to find one that’s able to fulfill all of your needs. You need to know what to expect from the bot prior to using it, which might cause you to use several bots rather than just one. To prove their usefulness, these bots have been tested and reviewed by professionals/regular users to prove their features and results. You can usually find their detailed reviews through doing a little bit of research on Google or Reddit to find a bot that does what you want it to be doing, at a pace that you want it to be going at.

Con: They Can Be Spotted Easily

People who are familiar with what a bot does are able to detect it extremely easily. This can become a little problematic for you as when the people you follow start to notice that you're using a bot rather than following them organically. It might make them feel a little disconnected from your account. Running the risk is completely up to you though, especially if you want quantity and quality, some of the hard work needs to be done by you in order to complete the cycle of engaging with your followers without making them feel disconnected.

Bots & Social Media

Running a bot makes your account gain followers really smoothly and helps you make use of the algorithms of specific websites like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. It helps you reach people that would like what you post specifically. However, it has downsides to it because if your followers are familiar with how the bots work, they’ll realize they were followed out of a bot rather than organically, which makes them lose interest in your account or genuinely feel disconnected from interacting with it because they weren’t personally followed.

The Pros and Cons of Using Social Media Bots
Reviewed by Simon Mkhize
on
August 07, 2019
Rating: 5